It's all downhill from here

For those of you who are anxious for summer to arrive, Sunday is your day. Keep in mind that after Sunday the days begin to get shorter. After Sunday's peak of almost 15.5 hours of sun, we will see a little less daylight every day until we get to just over eight hours of sun on December 21, 2009. Too bad you didn't stop whining long enough to enjoy the lovely Spring we had because after Sunday, it will be all downhill.

Monday morning encounter

This morning a lady walked in our generally dead silent, cubicle laden office and in a loud voice, not that far off of her normal volume, said 'good morning all.'

My response: 'wow! you're loud.'

Good start to the week

When I get to work every morning I have a ritual, like most others no doubt, that I go through before getting down to work (if I have any). As a general rule, I hate to be disturbed during this time (more so than any other time throughout the day) and if asked about work topics I give answers that I hope will just make the person go away. This morning I was actually able to sound smart when disturbed during my pre-work ritual. The best part, the person disturbing me was my superior. Providing that is the only distraction before I get down to work, today is setting up to be a good one.

It is early Monday morning though so things could still go either way in a hurry. It is still quite odd for me to have so much optimism so early in the week (or at all while at work).

May 2009 Quotes

I'm an outsider, outside of everything
- Green Day (Outsider)

Are we having fun yet?
- Nickelback (How You Remind Me)

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealin'
- Nickelback (How You Remind Me)

When you hear temptation call
It's your heart that takes, takes the fall
- Martika (Toy Soldiers)

Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on
- Martika (Toy Soldiers)

Only emptiness remains
It replaces all, all the pain
- Martika (Toy Soldiers)

I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become
- Toto (Africa)

…when all goes well, you are...courted by good luck.
- Dalton Camp

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

To be brave is sometimes to be foolish.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation's Edge)

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Earth)

…every society molds its population to fit itself. Customs develop that make sense within the society, and that chain every individual firmly to its needs. - Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Earth)

…it is remarkable what one can do if the need is great enough.
- Isaac Asimov (Foundation and Earth)

Bad dreams get rid of bad thoughts and then we're better off.
- Isaac Asimov (Forward the Foundation)

…the cultivated habits of a lifetime are not easily broken.
- Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)

…human nature is an old friend of ours.
- Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)

Men, however large and durable, soon pass. The earth of Canada remains, wondrously broad and fair.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

Politicians for the most part can be perfectly honest, politics never.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

He seldom lost his temper but when the patient man was pushed too far by fools he exploded with cold violence.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964) describing Robert Laird Borden

Divinity that hedges the kings of politics also isolates them from their subjects.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

Noble speech, however, though a useful tool or weapon, is no substitute in politics for the ignoble work of manipulation, cajolery, compromise, healing and bluff that must carry the daily round of democratic government.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

…the [capitalist] system enriches the few, impoverishes the many, debases society by the Law of Competing Standards and drives nations inevitably to war.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

…the primrose path does not make for greatness in any true sense.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King

No man may serve you as he should if he has over his shoulder always the shadow of pecuniary obligations.
- Richard Bedford Bennett

…the Government's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King

…politicians and soldiers of the better sort know how to keep their lips sealed in the nation's interest.
- Bruce Hutchinson (Mr. Prime Minister 1867-1964)

Politics is not magic, black, white or otherwise. It is certainly not an exact science…Politics is an art…the search for compromise without betrayal…above all, service, and not to self.
- Lester Bowles Pearson